they have to take the carpet tax up before the carbon tax. >> i gotcha. >> the carpet tax. >> animal crackers? >> no, no. >> duck soup? oh, man, is that terrible. >> part of the imf forecast, jim, bringing the numbers down for the global economy has been austerity does not work. >> it doesn't work. but that's paul crudeman who says it. i pet you paul crudeman believes in the 7.8 number, the big phony number. i bet you crudeman believes in it. how is that the focus of the discourse? i'm trying to make it alcoa. look, the imf is saying the obvious. the world bank is saying the obvious. if you continue to call for austerity you can't get growth. it's like, look, you want growth or want austerity. lyndon johnson, guns and butter equals inflation. if you just -- they are not doing guns or butter. if they are not doing margarine, they aren't doing machine guns. >> then you start again but they can't do that. >> we are devalued better than they are devalued. >> you would think we would be but the dollar is much stronger given anticipation of where rates are. >> true enough. stock specific s